CYBER-BIOLOGICAL STUDIES OF THE IMAGINAL COMPONENT IN THE UFO CONTACT EXPERIENCE

The proposition that UFO abduction reports relate to birth events is one of the very few falsi able hypotheses put forth in the history of UFO research. Of the 300 or so known reports, only about 200 provide substantial narratives, yet all of them contain perinatal imagery; most are dominated by it. In fact, the more detailed the narrative, the more birth data it exhibits. -ALVIN H. LAWSON The myth is the necessary medium for the message. There is the surface story, the Alien Abduction. But behind the mythic story is a personal drama. The experience has value on no matter what level; the beliefs are meaningful, whether fact or ction. -HILARY EVANS When a society begins to turn from hyper-rationalism, the collective imagination tends to body forth a new cycle of gods, values, and modes of consciousness. Present UFO phenomena may be seen as signaling the renewal of the collective imagination, reshaping social life and forming a new civilization. -MlCHAEL GROSSO Both theoretical and clinical evidence suggest that transient neuro-electrical discrepancy between the left and right temporal lobes is a precondition for the sense of a presence. -MICHAEL A. PERSINGER ls the UFO phenomenon "real," "unreal," or somewhere in between? Are aliens "good" or "evil"? When a subject breaks into opposed points of view, it indicates that something archetypal has been touched upon. Such a strong evocation "clouds men 's minds," and should signal to the investigator that all may not be as it seems, and that none of it is as it is told. -DENNlS STILLINGS